Posted on 10/12/2018 7:21:23 PM PDT by greeneyes
We ordered a prefab lean to green house. It is nice in the winter, but without insulation and heat, it’s not enough to grow indoor stuff when winter hits.
A pint of meat is just enough to make stroganoff or pepper steak or a small roast dinner for 2-3 people who don’t eat that much. We can still get two dinners out of it too. Very economical. Cooking a whole roast is just too much now that my son doesn’t live here anymore. I don’t mind eating the leftovers for a week but nobody else in my house is as cheap as me. I wind up freezing tv dinner plates out of it sometimes but twice frozen meats don’t appeal to me at all.
My other hugel bed got really dry in the summer and I think that’s why I had BER on the San Marzanos. I tried calcium, powdered milk, milk, etc. I think the ground just got too dry.
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Maybe. Also, I am recalling that calcium uptake can be impacted by lack of other nutrient. So the soil might have enough calcium, but the plant can’t utilize it. Don’t remember the details though.
Ditto. Here. Just the two of us. Sometimes, I cut a roast into 2 or 3 chunks. Cook one portion, and freeze the rest to thaw and cook later. When I freeze stuff that’s cooked, it tends to not get eaten. LOL
I think it was water.
If there isn’t enough water the plants can’t take it up.
I read that the San Marzanos are especially prone to BER.
I never had BER issues until I had San Marzanos.
They are very nice for Italian food but the taste is not right for salsas. Like dipping corn chips into Sunday Gravy!
Same here but I started just sneaking the frozen stuff out and not telling anybody it was previously frozen.
They don’t really know the difference unless it’s really old and then I’ll just get rid of it.
That’s amazing.
JRandom Freeper was a chef. He always grew regular roma tomatoes-he had a great Salsa Recipe.
I remember him.
The rogue tobacco plant.
He grew just about everything.
We didn’t talk but I hated to see him go...
He was one of a kind. I still miss him. Johnny, Marcella, and Rightly gave the thread a real lively flavor, that made everyone want to be there, I think.
I think it was you, not sure, about bringing tomatoes in and possibly getting them to root again. I suppose they could if you got some root with them. Otherwise, people on my garden group talked about cloning. There are cloners you can buy or DIY. I never understood if you put the rooting hormone in the water or what.
I bought some acquarium stuff at Walmart and tried cloning a clematis. No luck. But I've had some success with roses. Soe are so easy you don't need a cloner but don't know about veggies.
If you find something in your garden that is promising and unusual, cloning would be the best way to go rather than hybridization which come outlike Mendel's peas. Maybe not. Sooner or later you would want the seed.
that geothermal setup is amazing....that’s one guy who “retired” but stayed active and involved and it shows.
yes...been good clear skies for over a month.....my son went to Wash State and nephew went to UofI....
I miss justanotherdumbblonde too. She always had good pix of her garden. I think she was from Louisiana.
There are tons of videos about the Como Park Zoo and Marjorie McNeely Conservatory in St. Paul, MN. Most are flower shows, but this one captured my attention. Twice now I've had a terrible time finding it again in my watch history but this is the one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTdm8jddshs&t=29s
No wonder the title is: Grow Tropical Edible Herbs, Fruits and Vegetables Where it Snows
Well Sunday night is the first freeze. So I guess I’ll be picking the last of tomatoes, red, orange, yellow, green or whatever. And the last of the peppers of all sorts.
Might be a few Sweet Basil leaves I can harvest, dry and crush. I’ve kinda ignored them for a couple months.
Very small production this year but it wasn’t a huge effort.
Time to get ready for the cold weather. Seems like it’s coming earlier this year. I wish it wasn’t.
His name was Frederick Francis. It's an odd place (just google Francis Park and there are many photos from google maps. I remember reading when I was a kid he believed in the transmigration of souls, don't know if it is true. Anyway, it was a little creepy actually.
Along the drive, back then bordering some trees, was tons of poison ivy.
But the retiree in Nebraska, I would like to know a little more about the 8' deep tunnel, if it's shored up with suports to keep it from cavin in.
I can imagine difficulty getting a permit for an operaation like that, at least where I would want to do it.
Still would like to learn more about it.
Our black walnuts last year produced a bumper crop.
This year, nothing.
I think that’s just they way things go. Some years you get a lot. Some you don’t.
I just got my garlic for next year as well. I try to get it in in Sept, but the order arrived late.
Next year, no need to worry about that.
Our color is tending towards brown and dingy this year as well. The color is very late and that happens when it’s a warm year. In CNY.
Some places in VT and NH are pretty nice though.
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